Reposted by YoYoTheAssyrianDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 01/10/2026here you goliberalcurrents.comThe Return of the Cutting-Off WayStructural changes are driving us towards a more chaotic world, defined by "neither peace nor war, but conflict." 37210
YoYoTheAssyrian @yoyotheassyrian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Color me skeptical too, what’s kept trump afloat this decade is his iron grip on the median repub voter. Unless they actually break with him, he’ll continue to be a thermostatic shift away from a majority. I like the polls, but you can explain them all with repubs sad about losing and not answering. 010
YoYoTheAssyrian @yoyotheassyrian.bsky.social · 23/09/2026X-Wings: Putting a hyperdrive on something that small: Rebel Hit and Fade Tactics before the Battle of Yavin. 040
YoYoTheAssyrian @yoyotheassyrian.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Someone needs to find the time magazine cover that prominently features plastic sheeting and duct tape, people were covering their houses in that to protect against “chemical attacks” and “anthrax”. I dont remember if this was right after or a few years later, peak GWOT brain though. 100
Reposted by YoYoTheAssyrianjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/09/2026the other strange thing about this is that the 2024 election result was exceptionally narrow and yet commentators left and right talk about it like it was 1984 361443127
Reposted by YoYoTheAssyrianPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I'm writing about the Roman Iron Age (c. 1-400 AD) in Scandinavia. It sounds like a misnomer, because the Romans never conquered Scandinavia, but Romean influence was so powerful that it still transformed societies living hundreds of miles away: state formation, war, migration, huge economic shifts. 1157257
YoYoTheAssyrian @yoyotheassyrian.bsky.social · 15/08/2026GRANT We’d do the whole thing; childhood, west point, the mexican american war in season 1, maybe take it through most of the interwar period. And then season 2 we kick off the civil war, follow it through to the end. It be fun to include his presidency, but you’d probably cut that. 010
Reposted by YoYoTheAssyrianJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Houston, We Have A Problem … What’s Up With the National DSA? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/houst... 4614942
YoYoTheAssyrian @yoyotheassyrian.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I find that I try to land on my specific bell curve, not the cheapest garbage, but also not so expensive that I can’t afford to get all the things I need. The issue is hitting that moving target. Research, trying things on, trying things out, talking to people who know, it all takes time. 100
Reposted by YoYoTheAssyrian🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 02/08/2026i don't think this take in isolation is particularly unpopular, though i think the speculations on *why* this is can be. i tend to think it's because a) so many people are buying without seeing now, and b) i think most people have a natural inclination towards quantity over quality. 3629114
Reposted by YoYoTheAssyrian"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/07/2026No, No, no. Look, are there lessons to learn from this debacle? Sure. Drone warfare, mag depth, etc. But the solution here is not 'yet more tactical excellence or tech.' It is 'the president asked the impossible of the military and they should have said so.' www.theatlantic.com/internationa...theatlantic.comThe War Is Lost. Now Fix What It Broke.America has to rethink how it moves resources, fights wars, and deters adversaries. 412250503
Reposted by YoYoTheAssyrianNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 16/07/2026I'm sorry, there is just no way to take the discipline of constitutional law seriously if it includes the idea that you can throw out a constitutional amendment from the 1860s and a court case from the 1890s based on your interpretation of English common law from 1215. Complete joke of a profession. 1135366
Reposted by YoYoTheAssyrianDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 12/07/2026rip Holden Bloodfeast, you got what you wanted 115414
Reposted by YoYoTheAssyrianKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Are the obituaries going to go with euphemisms like "confirmed bachelor" or are they finally going to speak out loud about one of the worst-concealed closet cases in American political history? 851925182
Reposted by YoYoTheAssyrianNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Lindsay Graham was, I think, one of the most contemptible figures in US politics, a titan of respectable bipartisan foreign policy for years who displayed no principles, no insight, and no beliefs beyond a gleeful and vicarious love of violence. An indictment of every institution he served in. RIP. 393247623
YoYoTheAssyrian @yoyotheassyrian.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Five living writers that you’ve read five books by each John Scalzi Michael Stackpole Antony Beevor George RR Martin Neal Stephenson 000
Reposted by YoYoTheAssyrianSecretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Part II (which only took a month)! This part examines the Japanese counterstrikes against Task Force 50. Unsurprisingly, a lot of moving parts and perspectives to look at and some very close calls (as seen in the title picture lol). My latest⬇️secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.comThe Rise of the Fast Carrier Task Force: RabaulPart II: "Man your guns and blast those bastards out of the sky" 5474
Reposted by YoYoTheAssyrianPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 29/06/2026When you've actually written a chunk of it, a new project is real. Chapter 1 of "The Wolf and the Eagle," my first novel about the Goths and the Danube in 376 AD that I WILL BE LETTING PEOPLE READ BECAUSE I'VE SPOKEN IT INTO EXISTENCE, is done. 142045
Reposted by YoYoTheAssyrianKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Everyone talks about how it's a problem the president is an 80-year-old senile racist who makes shit up, but let's not forget that Sam Alito is a 76-year-old senile racist who also makes shit up. 543626822
Reposted by YoYoTheAssyrianJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 25/06/2026People kept coming up to me in the streets saying “please please use state conflict in Fallout New Vegas as a method of criticizing Graham Allison” and you guys aren’t gonna believe this. othermeans.substack.com/p/the-bear-a...othermeans.substack.comThe Bear and The BullThe Sources of State Conflict 1029840
Reposted by YoYoTheAssyrianPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026"Wealth is a blind thing, and it blinds all those who gaze upon it." - Menander, Athenian playwright, 4th century BC 115928
Reposted by YoYoTheAssyrianMichael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 25/06/2026the thing about primaries is winning them means listening to and appealing to democratic base voters. and it’s pretty clear that much of dem leadership and their favorite pundits and consultants fuckin hate democratic base voters. 1564979
Reposted by YoYoTheAssyrianmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/06/2026The Tea Party was a top-down astroturfed marketing campaign to rebrand the right wing of the GOP to a something that wasn't associated with George W. Bush's toxic Presidency. The extent to which it was an "insurgency" or "anti-establishment" is wildly overstated. 572850424
Reposted by YoYoTheAssyrianIsaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 18/06/2026New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a... 2053327563
Reposted by YoYoTheAssyrianSecretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Officially the longest article I have written, relying on 300+ pages of contemporaneous operational material, including war diaries, action and after-action reports, deck logs, and intelligence summaries, recreates an account of Task Force 50.3's attacks on Rabaul on November 11, 1943. My latest⬇️secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.comThe Rise of the Fast Carrier Task Force: RabaulPart I: The "Second Team" Goes to War 1537960
Reposted by YoYoTheAssyrianJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Many people, with tears in their eyes, they were begging me “please please write about competing security dynamics in Fallout: New Vegas” and folks othermeans.substack.com/p/rigged-fro...othermeans.substack.comRigged From the StartSecurity and Legitimacy in the Mojave Desert 3659793
Reposted by YoYoTheAssyrianPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Absolute loser shit. Do you really want to keep these institutions? Do you really think they matter? Then find a way to make them accountable to the will of the voters before they lose the thin patina of legitimacy they have left. 1037756
Reposted by YoYoTheAssyrianRoel Konijnendijk @roelkonijn.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Pro tip for when you want to type this surname but all you have is a TV remote: "ditch guy" works 3603
YoYoTheAssyrian @yoyotheassyrian.bsky.social · 04/05/2026This is the reason the old EU was really good for the franchise. Dozens upon dozens of novels by a really wide range or authors focusing on totally different bits of the universe. Did the old EU also disappear entirely up its own butt and probably need to be put down? Also yes! 120
YoYoTheAssyrian @yoyotheassyrian.bsky.social · 04/05/2026The only reason Padme fell for Anakin was that he was unconsciously using force persuade on her, just a constant background radiation of, “PLEASE LIKE ME.” Eventually, she succumbed! 120
Reposted by YoYoTheAssyrian"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 02/05/2026This week on the blog! Delving deeper into Carthaginian armies, we're looking at how Carthage got its Numidian cavalry and *enormous* amounts of Iberian infantry (and some cavalry too). Over a third of Carthaginian manpower in the 2nd Punic War came from these 'vassals.' acoup.blog/2026/05/01/c...acoup.blogCollections: Raising Carthaginian Armies, Part III: Generals, Warlords and VassalsThis is the third part (I, II) of our series looking at how Carthage’s complex, multipart armies were raised and constituted. Last time, we looked at the backbone of Carthage’s armies: … 827342
Reposted by YoYoTheAssyrianPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Fantastic review of my new book Lost Worlds in the Wall Street Journal: "Throughout, Mr. Wyman evokes the sights, sounds and smells of entire lifeways that have disappeared." www.wsj.com/arts-culture...wsj.com‘Lost Worlds’ Review: Life Before LettersFor thousands of years before the earliest written records exist, human communities emerged and formed traditions. Most have left little trace behind. 1521626
Reposted by YoYoTheAssyrianSean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 30/04/202613. They can't be trusted with the keys to this car any longer, and it's time to take away their damned keys. / fin 4796
YoYoTheAssyrian @yoyotheassyrian.bsky.social · 29/04/2026@patrickwyman.bsky.social Pre-order arrived in the mail today! It looks great! 000
Reposted by YoYoTheAssyrianBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Those of us in the pro-democracy movement can and should hold both of these positions. 1. We unequivocally reject violence. 2. We will unequivocally oppose efforts by this administration to use last night as an excuse to try to suppress criticism and criminalize dissent. 318128693009
Reposted by YoYoTheAssyrianDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 23/04/2026"What we need is to embrace power and to embrace responsibility for the exercise of that power. This includes everything from the sewer socialism of Zohran Mamdani to the constitutional hardball of Virginia's recent successful gerrymander." www.liberalcurrents.com/what-is-woke...liberalcurrents.comWhat Is Woke 2?Woke 2 is Woke 1 with an honest relation to power. 21619145
Reposted by YoYoTheAssyrianThe Onion @theonion.com · 22/04/2026Disney Promises ‘Star Wars’ Fans A New Era Of Blind Stabs At What They Seemed To Like Before theonion.com/disney-promises-star-w… 312737401
Reposted by YoYoTheAssyrianLiberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 21/04/2026"In America today we have a party of ordinary governance and a personality cult party. Those are the two options we are now offered every general election, and it really is that simple." www.liberalcurrents.com/vote-blue-no...liberalcurrents.comVote Blue No Matter Who: Party Politics As Political AgencyPolitics is a collective enterprise aimed at controlling the state, and requires working together as co-partisans. 9349102
Reposted by YoYoTheAssyrianNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 13/04/2026SECULAR LIBERALS: ".....and so you see, under the definition of blasphemy as put forward in the Bishop of Rome's 1687 encyclical 'De Viis Malis' and the Chalcedonian formulation of the Nicene Creed, Trump is, in fact, a heretic!!!" AMERICAN CHRISTIANS: "God says its OK for me to drive drunk." 101017180
Reposted by YoYoTheAssyrian"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 11/04/2026This week on the blog: Carthaginian Armies! We're going to discuss over the next few weeks the makeup of Carthaginian armies and how they were raised, beginning this week with the (quite limited) role of Carthaginian citizen soldiers. acoup.blog/2026/04/10/c...acoup.blogCollections: Raising Carthaginian Armies, Part I: Finding CarthaginiansThis is the first part of a series looking at the structure of the Carthaginian army. Although Carthage has an (unfair!) reputation for being a country of “peaceful merchants who tended to av… 824144
Reposted by YoYoTheAssyrianDavid Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 08/04/2026A Baltimore-based thread to explain one singular, overriding reason why American journalism is incapable of compassing and explaining the astonishing misrule and the implosion of all our governing norms. To wit: A few decades ago, as a police reporter covering the Baltimore department, a new... 191066357
Reposted by YoYoTheAssyrianbeetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 03/04/2026I dreamt of the beach (1/4) 5386902742
Reposted by YoYoTheAssyrianWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Trump started a pointless and illegal war with Iran, he lost it almost immediately, he crushed America's economy and America's partners while making Iran and our rivals much stronger. He did it for no reason he can articulate. In any decent nation, he'd be forced to resign immediately. 16832159
Reposted by YoYoTheAssyrianjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/04/2026sam alito’s only real belief is that he’ll do anything for daddy trump 321501162
Reposted by YoYoTheAssyrianPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 25/03/2026People I'm covering on this new season of Past Lives: -Anzick-1, the oldest human remains found in the Americas -The Ancient One/Kennewick Man (N. America, 6500 BC) -The Shaman of Bad Durrenberg (Europe, 7000 BC) -Otzi the Iceman (Europe, 3300 BC) -The Princess of Xiaohe (Xinjiang, 1800 BC) 1016319
Reposted by YoYoTheAssyrianPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 25/03/2026New season of Past Lives starts now! Introducing Bodily Experiences - every episode focuses on the life of a person we know through their remains, like skeletons and mummies. Thanks to new archaeological tools, we can understand past people in ways never before possible. www.pod.link/1852618120/e...pod.link 918734
Reposted by YoYoTheAssyrian"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Well, I am not sure what my analysis here is worth, but here is my 7,500 word primal scream of a military historian's take on the War in Iran. My best summary: this war is dumb as hell. acoup.blog/2026/03/25/m...acoup.blogMiscellanea: The War in IranThis post is a set of my observations on the current war in Iran and my thoughts on the broader strategic implications. I am not, of course, an expert on the region nor do I have access to any spec… 701577513
